Poetry. "The poems in Alexander Long's LIGHT HERE, LIGHT THERE offer no bromides, no easy consolations. His new book is a product of 'the grieving mind in memory,' and Long seems to have forgotten nothing. The misery of a failed marriage, a friend's suicide, and the casual ruin of other wasted lives are cataloged with a ruthless precision. But 'every apocalypse is personal,' Long assures us, and because it is, we readers experience the same redemption...
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